Did you stay with friends on your last vacation? Travel...

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April 18, 1989|By L.M. Boyd

Did you stay with friends on your last vacation? Travel monitors say such trip takers visit overnight with friends 37 percent of the time and stay in hotels 41 percent of the time. Where they spent nights the other 22 percent of the time wasn't accounted for.

Q. Can you die of pain?

A. No, say precise medicos. You feel only so much, then no more. What causes the pain can kill you. Shock there from can kill you. But not the pain itself. So they say. Okay, but it sounds to me as though pain can kill you.

Oldest letter of any alphabet is ''O''.

Did I mention how Pekingese dogs got so popular? British soldiers captured Beijing, then called Peking, in 1860, and looted same, taking even its little dogs. They'd never before been seen in the Western World. The Royal Army gave one to Queen Victoria. In allusion to how it was acquired, she named it ''Looty.'' Owning a Pekingese thereafter became the thing.

Q. What proportion of the U.S. population is made up of blondes, real blondes?

A. Sixteen percent.

Safest clothing color for bicyclists is now said to be ''hot pink.''

Q. I know there are man-eating tigers and the like, but does any species of wild animal prefer to hunt man for food?